Ask the FIBER TARTS! is just taking a little vacay and will be back soon with more of your queries, comments, grumbles and whatever else is on your fiber-filled minds. In the meantime, click here: fiberartsblog@hotmail.com and send us a note. Even if you just want to say hi! We love penpals. See you real […]
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As the daughter of a math teacher and a scientist in my own right, I tend to think of most everything in terms of equations…. Solve for X….. X is actually a whole bunch of different events: shearing, washing, processing, spinning, dyeing to name a few. This weekend I had the good fortune to take […]
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Wow, it was all the way back in frosty January that I shared the prank that Tom Hanks concocted for Julia Roberts. In case you forgot, check it out here. Now that their film “Larry Crowne” is coming out, lots of behind-the-scenes videos have been released, and I found one showing Julia’s reaction “live.” I […]
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Uncomfortable in Averill Park poses,“Recently a colleague who occasionally sees me knitting on my lunch break asked me if I would “whip up” a sweater for her large dog! How can I politely say “no way!” ???” This is is an age-old dilemma: people nervy enough to make such a flippant request have no […]
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A long time ago before I became a regular here on the Fiber Arts blog, I did a guest post about my first spinning wheel. I commented that the words made me think of a brightly colored plastic toy with the words Fisher-Price on it. Well, Fisher Price didn’t make one, but in the late […]
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No, really. Seriously? You HAVE to be kidding. Um…no. Let me explain. By now a lot of folks know I’m in the process of packing up my life to move to the first house I’ll own (by myself) in over 20 years. It’s wonderful to think about not having people I barely know living over, […]
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Yes, another world record has been broken in the knitting world. This time it’s finger knitting and was achieved by the kids at Monkton Elementary School in Vermont. This video tells the story: The school hired surveyors to make sure they met the criteria and it was determined they officially broke the finger knitting record. […]
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Reading Aaron’s entry last week made me take stock of the projects I currently have in progress – I’m hoping that two of them will be completed by the time this actually hits the web – about 32 hours from right now. I’ve always got a pair of socks going . In winter, SOPs (socks-in-progress) […]
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Can you believe it’s time for Ask the FIBER TARTS! already? Well it is, so read on to see what this week’s installment is all about. Today’s query is from Kinderhook Knit Knut who was wondering: “With the warmer weather already here and temps getting even higher in summer, it’s hard to think about knitting. […]
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No, not the dietary kind, the spinning kind. I’m referring of course, to the way your fiber was prepared to be spun. Do you prefer carded fiber or combed fiber? Each method of preparation is distinctly different, but from those two methods you can produce quite a variety of yarns. Carding is a woolen preparation […]
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